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The longest legible Cypro-Minoan inscription yet extant is a cylinder (19.10 = ##097 ENKO Arou 001) found at Enkomi in 1967 with 217 signs, dated to the Late Cypriot IIA–B period (14th century BC). In total, six cylinders have now been found, one at Enkomi and five at Kalavassos-Ayios Dimitrios.
Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet FRSE FRCPE FSA Scot (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870) was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine.He was the first physician to demonstrate the anaesthetic properties of chloroform in humans and helped to popularize its use in medicine.
Line drawing rendering, bronze Idalion Tablet, 5th century BCE, Idalion, Cyprus.. The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary (also Classical Cypriot Syllabary) is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from about the 11th to the 4th centuries BCE, when it was replaced by the Greek alphabet.
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A Linear A inscription was said to have been found in southeast Bulgaria. [70] Another, somewhat more solid, find was at Tel Lachish. [71] A Minoan graffito found at Tel Haror on a vessel fragment is either Linear A or Cretan hieroglyphs. [72] Several tablets inscribed in signs similar to Linear A were found at Troy in northwestern Anatolia ...
The following dates are approximations. 700 BC: Pythagoras's theorem is discovered by Baudhayana in the Hindu Shulba Sutras in Upanishadic India. [18] However, Indian mathematics, especially North Indian mathematics, generally did not have a tradition of communicating proofs, and it is not fully certain that Baudhayana or Apastamba knew of a proof.
This approach lowered the staining period from 24 hours to just 1 hour. After the dye had stained the tissue, he then stained it with a secondary dye called vesuvine which was used to reveal leprosy. [70] When this secondary dye was added, Koch discovered the animal's tissue was stained brown while the tuberculosis bacteria rods were bright blue.
In quest of a non-addictive alternative to morphine, Wright experimented with combining morphine with various acids.He boiled anhydrous morphine alkaloid with acetic anhydride over a stove for several hours and produced a more potent, acetylated form of morphine, now called diamorphine (or diacetylmorphine), [10] also known as heroin.